Petriashvili, Olgha Mikhailovna

Petriashvili Olgha Mikhailovna was born in Ulianovsk (Russian Federation), on September 18, 1953.

  • In 1970 she completed A.P.Chekhov secondary school № 14 of Sukhumi and in the same year entered the historical-philological faculty of M.Gorki Sukhumi pedagogical Institute from which graduated with honors in 1975.
  • In 1975-1978 is a teacher at Sukhumi secondary school № 20.
  • In 1986-1992 is a teacher at A.P.Chekhov secondary school № 14 of Sukhumi.
  • In1991-1993 is an instructor of the department of foreign literature of Sukhumi branch of Ivane Dzhavakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
  • In 1997 at Ivane Dzhavakhishvili Tbilisi State University she maintained her thesis for a candidate’s degree in philological sciences on the subject: “The Stories by Ivan Bunin (1888-1953)”.
  • In 2002 at Ivane Dzhavakhishvili Tbilisi State University she maintained her thesis for a doctor’s degree in philological sciences on the subject: “The Grotesque in Russian Literature of the 20th century”.
  • In 2004-2006 she is a member of the dissertation board of the humanitarian faculty of Ivane Dzhavakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
  • From 2006 up to the present time is a professor, the head of the department of the history of Slav Literatures at Sukhumi State University (in Tbilisi).
  • From 2008 is an academician of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Georgia.

Scientific publications

Monographs

  1. Problems of Literary Grotesque. Tbilisi, “Metsniereba”, 1999 (in georgian).
  2. Essays on the History of Russian Literary Grotesque. Tbilisi, “Metsniereba”, 2000.
  3. The Grotesque in Russian Literature of the 20th century. Tbilisi, “Universal”, 2005.

Articles

Over 50 scientific articles in the journals, collections and proceedings of scientific – in Georgian, Russian, English, Ukrainian languages.

Remarks in encyclopedia

Olgha Petriashvili – in the encyclopedic reference book: “The Doctors of Science of Georgia (1992-2006)”, Tbilisi, the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, 2012, p, 485.